The EU Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) would make it difficult to earn a profit from securities lending and repo if it is enacted in its current form, according to panellists at ISLA's annual conference...
Trade repositories will not reduce the potential for systematic risk in the securities lending market, according to an audience survey at the International Securities Lending Association’s annual conference in Prague...
Traiana plans to launch direct connectivity between its Harmony CCP Connect and LCH.Clearnet's foreign exchange clearing service, ForexClear, for non-deliverable forwards clearing...
Short selling in Japanese equities showed signs of increasing in the last week of May, according to Karl Loomes, market analyst at SunGard Astec Analytics...
Securities lending and repo desks should move closer together to provide a better overview of collateral, according to one panellist at ISLA’s annual conference in Prague...
‘Shadow banking’ was one of the worst terms that could have been coined to describe activities such as securities lending, according to Steven Maijoor of the European Securities and Markets Authority...
HSBC Securities Services has expanded its broker-dealer outsourcing solution to cover Europe, Asia, the US, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa...
J.P. Morgan has ramped up its collateral management business—including increased asset tracking—to help clients navigate new industry regulations...
The European Association of CCP Clearing Houses (EACH) is urging regulators to exempt CCPs from the bail-in provisions of the banking recovery and resolution framework proposal...